Sonoma County will become the first Bay Area jurisdiction to automatically check the immigration status of everyone booked into county jail.

Democracy Now reports on today’s public education protests in California. Berkeley professor Ananya Roy: “I’m glad to see that the Governor has become aware of how California is spending much more on prisons than on its universities. … [But] we reject these various tradeoffs, that the privatization of prisons in order to stop cuts to our system is not a progressive social agenda. We need to unite across social sectors to say that we have to find a way to invest in the collective future of California … rather than simply thinking about shuffling resources from one set of cuts to another.”

How Appealing reports on an Eighth Circuit ruling: “the attorney for a Nebraska state prison inmate/artist who was prohibited from sending drawings of a marijuana leaf and a bare-breasted woman to his mother and to the Maoist Internationalist Movement has “won” an attorney’s fee in the amount of $1.50. You can access today’s ruling at this link.”